Thanks Jake Mannix and N Hira. I'm planning to releasing my code as Apache licensed.
I have read http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 and replace my own identifying information with the boilerplate notice. Aren't you guys on a holiday? (You guys are really hard-working), in China, we don't have Christmas holiday but Spring Festival Holiday. Happy Christmas Eve:-) On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Jake Mannix <jake.man...@gmail.com> wrote: > Merry Christmas to you, Weiwei. > > If you want to release your software under *exactly* the Apache License > (version 2.0 is the most current form of it), you may do so very easily - > just read the appendix at the end of this page: > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 > > In particular, note that becoming an "Apache Software Foundation" project > (via the Incubator process, as mentioned by Hira) is different than > releasing your code as Apache licensed. Being an ASF project requires > applying, generating a community around your project, and is a large > undertaking. Releasing your project as Apache licensed you may do without > asking anyone for permission or asking for any help - if you own the > copyright and patent rights to the work, you may release it under the > Apache > license by putting the code somewhere for people to get (sourceforge, > google-code, github, your own server, wherever), and include the > above-mentioned license file. > > -jake > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Weiwei Wang <ww.wang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Merry Christamas, guys, > > > > I haven't taken part in any open source activties and currently I want to > > make my project open source under apache public license? What should i > do? > > Apply for a license? and where to apply? > > > > -- > > Weiwei Wang > > Alex Wang > > 王巍巍 > > Room 403, Mengmin Wei Building > > Computer Science Department > > Gulou Campus of Nanjing University > > Nanjing, P.R.China, 210093 > > > > Homepage: http://cs.nju.edu.cn/rl/weiweiwang > > > -- Weiwei Wang Alex Wang 王巍巍 Room 403, Mengmin Wei Building Computer Science Department Gulou Campus of Nanjing University Nanjing, P.R.China, 210093 Homepage: http://cs.nju.edu.cn/rl/weiweiwang
